Entourage formatting

[epa.neto]

Hello comunity,

Im having a litle problem at formating my emails at entourage. I was
used to Microsoft Outlook, where i could just bring a .html file
previously build and start to use.

At entourage i cant find a place to import a .html file and have my
emails formated with images and css.

Is it possible to build a look for an email in a html file and import
at entourage?

Thanks,
neto

 

[Diane Ross]

Im having a litle problem at formating my emails at entourage. I was
used to Microsoft Outlook, where i could just bring a .html file
previously build and start to use.

At entourage i cant find a place to import a .html file and have my
emails formated with images and css.

Is it possible to build a look for an email in a html file and import
at entourage?

In Word there are two options for sending:

"Send to Mail Recipient (HTML)" and ³mail merge to email³.

For help with HTML Newsletters, Messages & Signatures

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/html_msg.html>
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Neto:

Further to what Diane said:

There is no CSS support in Entourage (yet...) And its HTML abilities are
very minimal: basically only colours and fonts.

I don't suppose it's worth pointing out tat if you send an email formatted
with CSS and images, 80 or 90 per cent of people in the world will never see
it?

Nearly every Spam filter will kill such an email, sight unseen. Emails are
brief "just the facts" communications, and should be sent only in plain text
without any formatting or images, to give them the highest possibility of
getting to the destination.

As Diane says, if you need your reader to be able to see pictures and
formatting, send a Word document, as an attachment. But state in plain text
why they should read it, otherwise suspicious people like me will just dump
it anyway

Hope this helps

Hello comunity,

Im having a litle problem at formating my emails at entourage. I was
used to Microsoft Outlook, where i could just bring a .html file
previously build and start to use.

At entourage i cant find a place to import a .html file and have my
emails formated with images and css.

Is it possible to build a look for an email in a html file and import
at entourage?

Thanks,
neto

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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

On 6/28/07 9:59 PM, in article C2AAA4B5.4BC1%[email protected], "John McGhie"

As Diane says, if you need your reader to be able to see pictures and
formatting, send a Word document, as an attachment. But state in plain text
why they should read it, otherwise suspicious people like me will just dump
it anyway

<snip>

.... Better yet, send it as a PDF

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Naaahhh.... They will only email back asking for a useable copy!

You can only "read" a PDF. You can't USE it for anything (not even
printing, if I comes from the USA, it needs a paper size the rest of the
world doesn't have...)

Cheers

On 6/28/07 9:59 PM, in article C2AAA4B5.4BC1%[email protected], "John McGhie"


<snip>

... Better yet, send it as a PDF


Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

<snip>

Naaahhh.... They will only email back asking for a useable copy!

You can only "read" a PDF. You can't USE it for anything (not even
printing, if I comes from the USA, it needs a paper size the rest of the
world doesn't have...)

<snip>

I don't understand...

The OP didn't specify a need to send an _editable_ document. Nor is there
any indication of origin or destination.

Further, paper size is irrelevant (within reason) for on-screen viewing and
Word docs are no more "flexible" about paper size than PDFs - if the
recipients would be better off with A4 (or whatever) format, make the PDF
accordingly (we *can* do that even in the USA, you know;-)). Even if not,
PDFs can be scaled at print time to fit the paper size - albeit the content
doesn't re-flow it should be fine for local printing (certainly more readily
"usable" than an HTML email message). If commercial printing were a
consideration we're obviously beating a dead horse;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

Yeah, well as the recipient of many Letter-sized PDFs, I can tell you that
it's far quicker to email back and ask for the Word original than it is to
futz with the PDF trying to get it to fit on an A4 page

I can change the paper size of a Word document with a couple of clicks, and
Word will adjust everything to fit. Neatly, if the document was properly
constructed Even with the very expensive Adobe Acrobat, changing the
layout of a document is not quite so easy; and since I don't have Acrobat,
it's not possible at all

I guess the real problem comes when you want to use only "part" of what they
send. In Word: copy, paste; job done.

In PDF, oh dear: it turns into a mini project just to get the text out. If
you want the graphics as well, rather you than me

Cheers

<snip>

<snip>

I don't understand...

The OP didn't specify a need to send an _editable_ document. Nor is there
any indication of origin or destination.

Further, paper size is irrelevant (within reason) for on-screen viewing and
Word docs are no more "flexible" about paper size than PDFs - if the
recipients would be better off with A4 (or whatever) format, make the PDF
accordingly (we *can* do that even in the USA, you know;-)). Even if not,
PDFs can be scaled at print time to fit the paper size - albeit the content
doesn't re-flow it should be fine for local printing (certainly more readily
"usable" than an HTML email message). If commercial printing were a
consideration we're obviously beating a dead horse;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

<snip>

Neatly, if the document was properly
constructed

<snip>

Ah... There's the rub (to coin a phrase;-))

And no contradiction to *any* of your rationale - I just didn't read any of
those considerations into the query... I'm a literal kinda guy

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Clive Huggan]

On 1/7/07 10:07 AM, in article C2AD2D66.4D25%[email protected], "John McGhie"

I guess the real problem comes when you want to use only "part" of what they
send. In Word: copy, paste; job done.

In Acrobat: Select with selection tool, copy; in Word, Edit menu => Paste
Special (or a keyboard shortcut for this most used of all my editing
actions). Not difficult if you have Acrobat (you don't, John? I shall speed
to you a licensed recent version by Australia Post as a token of my
esteem...).

Clive Huggan
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